Inventor

SOBEL WILLIAM E

US175 patents

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SOBEL WILLIAM E

SYMANTEC CORP

Use of geo-location data for spam detection

System utilizing updated spam signatures for performing secondary signature-based analysis of a held e-mail to improve spam email detection

Determining firewall rules for an application on a client based on firewall rules and reputations of other clients

Client compliancy with self-policing clients

Enhanced client compliancy using database of security sensor data

SSL validation and stripping using trustworthiness factors

Dynamic security policy through use of empirical security events

Automatic controllable deployment of software updates

Recovery of file systems after modification failure

Backtracked incremental updating

Enabling clean file cache persistence using dual-boot detection

Efficient backups using dynamically shared storage pools in peer-to-peer networks

Vulnerability assessment of disk images

Thwarting malicious registry mapping modifications and map-loaded module masquerade attacks

Storage of reverse delta updates

Enforcement of compliance with network security policies

Detecting mutating malware using fingerprints

Methods and systems for detecting rootkits

SOBEL WILLIAM E

Secure network cache content

Methods and systems for detecting man-in-the-browser attacks

Systems and methods for providing guidance on the potential impact of application and operating-system changes on a computing system

Unauthorized account monitoring system and method

Systems and methods for identifying candidate duplicate memory pages in a virtual environment

Rolling incremental updates

Cooperative identification of malicious remote objects

Selecting a network service for communicating with a server

Methods and systems for injecting endpoint management agents into virtual machines

User associated geo-location based reauthorization to protect confidential information

Safe and secure access to dynamic domain name systems

Clustered device access control based on physical and temporal proximity to the user

Hardware secured portable storage

Methods and systems for providing resource-access information

HERNACKI BRIAN

Detecting man-in-the-middle attacks via security transitions

Prioritizing tasks from virtual machines

Method and system to audit physical copy data leakage

Global, location-aware computer security

Systems and methods for determining the trustworthiness of a server in a streaming environment

Enforcing digital rights management in a heterogeneous environment

Methods and systems for enforcing network access control in a virtual environment

SATISH SOURABH

Preventing malware from abusing application data

Uninstall and system performance based software application reputation

Systems and methods for creating and managing backups based on health information

Methods and systems for processing web content encoded with malicious code

Enforcing expected control flow in program execution

Systems and methods for preventing exploitation of byte sequences that violate compiler-generated alignment

Applying differing security policies for users who contribute differently to machine hygiene

MCCORKENDALE BRUCE

Hypervisor enabled secure inter-container communications

Portable firewall adapter

Hypervisor assisted single instance data access by multiple virtual machines

COOLEY SHAUN

Anti-phishing early warning system based on end user data submission statistics